Presentation of services
Great Dane Studios is a music production, publishing and artist management company located in Paço de Arcos, Portugal.
Who are we?
FOR ARTISTS AND FILM
Topline writing and music production
Artist management
Sync
Sound design
Voice-over recording
Music Supervision
Our services
Our studios
Our
Admin
Mikkel Solnado
CEO, Composer and Producer. After being one of the most requested artists in Portugal and having worked for several years in composition and production for other artists and advertising, in 2018 he created his own Music Production, Publishing and Management company: Great Dane.
Ana Borges
With more than 10 years in the Music Industry, she joined Mikkel Solnado in the creation of Great Dane Studios. She began her career at the independent label Enchufada, later working at Red Bull Music Academy, Warner Music Portugal and Farol Música, with roles ranging from Artist Advising and Promotion to Label Manager. Since 2018, she has helped to develop Great Dane in the management of the production studio and in the area of artist management.
Miguel Bragança
Entrepreneur with interests in various business areas: Business Coaching, Digital Marketing/Media and Music. He has been a director at various companies for over 20 years and has a passion for developing businesses to their fullest potential; in addition to an MBA at UCP, he graduated in Berklee, Boston in the fields of Artist Management and Music Publishing.
Our inhouse creative team
António Graça (LEFT.)
Miguel Laureano (Choro)
Creator of fresh and fragmented pop, working on simple structures that intersect in melodic and personal challenges. One of the most requested producers in Portugal. He has already produced - Diogo Picarra, Fernando Daniel, Clarissa (Brazil) and many others.
Indie pop rock producer with metal roots. Multi-instrumentalist, Miguel manages to create large and melodic productions.
Combining sound design, manipulating captured samples and an attention to detail with strong songwriting are the main focus of his productions.
SUAVEYOUKNOW
Urban pop and hip hop producer. Jimmy P, Fábia Maia, Wet Bed Gang, Cintia, Harold, Diana Lima or Deezy are some of the several names that used the instrumentals signed by the producer formerly known as J-Cool.
With gold records in his bag, SUAVEYOUKNOW is one of the most respected and influential producers in the urban world.
Luís Fernandes
Young Madeiran producer and singer-songwriter. Owner of a great voice and sensitivity in his pop compositions. Currently residing in London, he has been working remotely at the Great Dane.
Our inhouse creative team
Tainá
Joana Alegre
Tainá, of indigenous descent, writes true songs that appeal to our hearts. At the age of 22, she came to Portugal to study music, where she crossed paths with Mikkel Solnado, who immediately saw her talent and invited her to be a composer for the Great Dane. In 2019, she released her self-titled debut and “Sonhos” was the first single that earned her distinction in the Lusofonia category at the Play Awards.
Daughter of Manuel Alegre, Joana is the poet of our house. She grew up in Lisbon and since an early age music and poetry are part of her life. She began with the Colégio Moderno Chamber Orchestra, studied classical guitar and jazz at the Hot Clube de Portugal. She participated in the program The Voice, was an author and performer at the Festival da Canção 2021 and has just edited her second original album, produced by Luísa Sobral.
Clara Duailibi
Clara is an amazing songwriter who has mastered several styles from Urban to Folk. Born in 1997 in the interior of Brazil and emigrated to Portugal at the age of 4 years. With a bossa nova-loving father and a mother who is a singer, writer and singing teacher, her love for music dates back to her childhood. She launched her solo project with the single “Família” and is getting ready to release new works exploring a new alternative pop sound.
Marta Carvalho
One of our most requested songwriters, she won the Festival da Canção 2020 with the song “Medo de Sentir”. With studies in Classical Music in Porto and the 8th grade in Clarinet, she played in several symphony orchestras until she was 18 years old. She moved to Lisbon at the age of 19 with the aim of dedicating herself to music and entered the pop industry as a songwriter and lyricist for other artists such as Fernando Daniel, Agir, April Ivy, Jimmy P, among others.
Our creative team
Rita Onofre
N Drew
Rita is an indie pop songwriter. Daughter of a guitar player, she picked up the guitar at around 10 years old and started playing with compositions. In 2015 she releases his first EP and an album with the band SEASE, formed with colleagues from the Production and Technologies course at ETIC. Among original projects, she always looked for ways to work with the composition component, having accompanied and supported several independent artists in recent years.
Carolina Leote Godinho
Carolina is our score composer. With a degree in Music from the Lisbon Superior School of Music, she has worked with several projects and artists including Luísa Sobral. Nobody composes a string arrangement like her.
With several projects in the pipeline for some of the greatest national artists, André's voice and way of writing is unmistakable
Our artists
Elisa
Born in Madeira, Elisa won the Festival da Canção in 2020 with the song “Medo de Sentir” and presented herself to the public for the first time.
At the same time, he signed a record contract with Warner Music, a label with which his first originals were released, with airplay on the main national radio stations. He recently edited his debut album “No Meu Canto”, together with “Se Não Me Amas”, a single composed by Luísa Sobral and produced by Mikkel Solnado.
Tomás Adrião
Winner of The Voice 2017. In 2019, he joined Great Dane Studios to compose and produce his debut album. “Perdido”, “The Search for Someone”, “Step by Step” with Cláudia Pascoal and “Dia Mau” are the singles she has already presented from her first album, which was released in 2021.
Technical team
Nuno Fernandes
João Repolho
Graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Nuno has already worked in Los Angeles, Boston and London, returning to Portugal in the summer of 2018.
He has worked with artists such as Bryan Adams, Jeff Lynne, KT Tunstall, Rita Redshoes, Elisa, Tainá, Procol Harum, London Grammar, among others.
He began his career in music at age 12, at the Conservatory of the Music School of Orfeão de Leiria and in 2015 moves to Lisbon in search of opportunities, namely to study Music Technologies, at the Lisbon Superior School of Music.
In 2019, he starts his internship at Great Dane Studios, where he still collaborates as a technical manager, guitarist and composer.
Songwriting
And production for artists
(selection)
Diogo Piçarra - Vem Dançar Comigo
Fernando Daniel - Raro
Elisa - Se Não Me Amas
Soraia Tavares - A Beleza Vai Mudar o Mundo
Rita Redshoes - Rosa Flor
Wet Bed Gang & PNPL Brasil - Cocaína
Tainá - Senti
Mikkel Solnado - E Agora?
Marta Carvalho - Chama
Tomás Adrião feat. Elisa - Infinito
April Ivy - Tell me baby
Elisa - Medo de Sentir (Eurovision)
Composition
and production for film
(selection)
Elsa and Fred (international)
Irregular (Portugal)
Sakal Sakali Saklolo (Indonesia)
Sorte Kugler (Denmark)
Det Kongelige Spektakel (Denmark)
Den Store Dag (Denmark)
Klassefesten (Denmark)
Blood Brothers (Portugal)
Anja og Victor (Denmark)
Commercials
(selection)
KIA (Europe)
Wink (Portugal)
Carnet Jove (Spain)
ERA Sonhos (Portugal)
Virgin Active (Thailand)
Lays (Baltic States)
Imagin Bank (Spain)
Volkswagen (Denmark)
ISEG Part time poets (Portugal)